Ding Leads Final CLS Group

21st March 2013

All seven winners of the Championship League Snooker groups returned to Crondon Park, Essex, to contest the big money final group, and it was China's Ding Junhui, a winner at the Dafabet PTC Grand Finals at the weekend, who continued his run of good form to take a solid lead with a day remaining.

He maintains a point lead over the pack with wins over Mark Allen, John Higgins and Marco Fu, although any of the six other players can still make the top four and the lucrative play-offs.

The Championship League Snooker event is a venture between Matchroom Sport and Perform where 25 of the game's finest players compete with all matches broadcast on a host of betting websites.

Each of the seven groups featured seven players with each man playing the other six once in a round-robin basis. At the end of the league phase the top four advanced to that group's semi-finals where the two winners meet in the final.